Don’t underestimate the Manhattan Project. We started from scratch on this project.
Bammy had everything he needed to build a website.
Actually, it was 172 aircraft carriers.
22 Essex Class carriers
9 Princeton Class Light Carriers
141 Escort Carriers
Impressive numbers.
I does show how deep we have sunk as a nation.
Are you going to give credit to the source or are you going to claim this as your own?
At that time Pennsylvania produced more steel that any country in the world. We also had the richest iron ore deposits going in the Mesabi range in Wisconsin. They are virteally all gone now.
At nighn, Bessemer converters lit the sky up over Youngstown, Ohio every night producing steel. Now there is not one Bessemer converter operating there.
Absolutely great, that was when we had a huge manufacturing base within OUR country, where people had a work ethic, pride in workmanship and were driven by patriotism . Forget it today, that was why they were called the greatest generation.
You may have under estimated the equipment production, as the US was ramping up production of war materiel sold to the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, etc; long before December 1941.
On the other hand, you have forgotten the military of those same countries who fought the Krauts from 1939. Sorry, but the US did not all of a sudden sweep in and win the war all by its lonesome! In fact, like WWI, the US generals were to start with, by and large, quite cocky, thinking that the Brits, et al., didn’t know how to fight a war to win. Look at the shellacking the US Army got at first in Africa! When they finally listened to the advice of the Brits who had fought for more than two years in Africa, the Allies started to win big in Africa and US losses dropped.
AFA the Battle of the Atlantic, like US Army in Africa, the USN was ignorant of how to battle U-boats at the start, ignoring RN advice and suffering heavy losses until they realized the Brits knew of what they were talking. Much of the winning strategy involved the use of hundreds of corvettes, both British and Canadian, using the British ‘hedgehog’, and the addition of USN ships. Until enough US and Royal Navy escort carriers came on station, the Brits made do with CAM ships launching ‘Hurricats’, which cut down U-boat attacks. Escor carriers curtailled most U-boat activity.
In Italy and Sicily, the landings were a Brit, Canuck and Yank affair. Soon, elements of additional Empire forces joined the fray. The D-Day invasion involved 5 beaches, Gold & Sword (Brits), Utah and Omaha (Yanks), and Juno (Canucks).
The Manhatten Project was a multi-national effort, involving Yanks, Brits, Canucks and many scientists from occupied Europe. Both heavy water and uranium ore came from Canada, as well as 300 scientist working on the Project. Could the US have built an A-bomb without the other scientists? Likely, but certainly not in 1945!
The war in the Pacific was mostly a US war. In addtion to Pearl Harbour, Canadians were attacked at Hong Kong on Dec 7/8, 1941 as were the Brits defending British Malaya. Other than coastal defence, after the fall of Hong Kong, Canada’s war was in Europe, though an RCAF pilot won a Victoria Cross in the Pacific in 1945. .
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
What the United States CAN’T DO IS!.....
1) make socialism illegal...
2) prosecute traitors...
3) stop sedition...
4) hang progressives as enemies..
5) elect republicans with balls that believe in capitalism..
6) speak the truth about the democrats and the democrat party..
7) know the truth about marijuana..
8) States seceding from an unconstitutional rogue federal givernment..
and other things..
While distressing, this isn’t really surprising. America isn’t the same country that mobilized to defeat the Axis in WWII. This country’s so hogtied by its internal politics now that such a mobilization would never occur. The government website is one such example. After nearly four years, dismal failure is the result.
Imagine trying to send astronauts to the moon now... the special interest groups wanting a piece of the action would tangle up such a program for decades. Good God, we don’t even have a manned space program anymore.
Also, while I’m no fan of Roosevelt, he at least allowed America to be on the winning side. Thank God the Marxists in today’s American regime weren’t in power then... we’d have been under occupation inside of 18 months.
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